Sundry Photographs of the Lethbridge Brewing and Malting Co

This album of photographs from the Lethbridge Brewing and Malting Company likely dates from between 1905 (when the Alberta Brewery, founded in 1901, was renamed the Lethbridge Brewing and Malting Co) and 1918 (when the name was changed to Lethbridge Breweries Limited). The photographs document the interior of the factory, and are reminiscent of Lewis Hine's photographs of industrial labour. Though perhaps best known for his photographs documenting child labour while he worked for the National Child Labor Committee from 1908 to 1924, Hine also photographed adult labour, and some of his photographs heroize labourers—such as his series of the Empire State Building under construction from 1931 and his 1920 photograph of a steamfitter.

This album is from the Prairie Ephemera Collection housed in Bruce Peel Special Collections.